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Archive for November, 2011

Awakening

Wednesday, November 30th, 2011

The past, memory, and prior expectation tends to obscure our perception of “raw” sensory experiences in the present moment.

Awakening

Tuesday, November 29th, 2011

Without the intentional effort to awaken, life tends to speed up and pass us by…

Awakening

Monday, November 28th, 2011

How does it feel to be in the presence of an open mind?

Video: 365 Grateful Project

Monday, November 28th, 2011

Here is a wonderful project about gratitude done by professional photographer, Hailey Bartholomew. When she began posting her daily gratitude photos back in 2008 on Flickr the idea seemed to spread like wildfire. From there a group was formed and others began their own version of this project. Now Hailey is in the process of […]

Awakening

Sunday, November 27th, 2011

Mindfulness alters our affective responses- freed from “automaticity”, we strengthen our capacity for self-regulation. We are less disturbed by our emotional states.

Awakening

Saturday, November 26th, 2011

The “essential you”- your “true nature” is beneath the “narrative”, constructs, conditioning, habitualness, and emotional reactivity.

Awakening

Friday, November 25th, 2011

Can you clearly distinguish between your primary sensory experience of bodily sensation (e.g. pain) from the secondary emotional and cognitive processes created in reaction to the primary experience?

Awakening

Thursday, November 24th, 2011

As human beings, we all have the inherent capacity to create a world of compassion and well-being, or one of mindless violence and destruction.

Awakening

Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011

Who am I beyond the image I have of myself?

Awakening

Tuesday, November 22nd, 2011

Acuity of awareness or refined “mindsight” comes with a liberation from our habituation- our conditioning- and our “automaticity” to be and live within the narrow defines of a separate and pre-conceived “self”.